The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is the ultimate law of Belarus. Adopted in 1994, three years after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union. The structure and substance of the Constitution were heavily influenced by constitutions of Western powers and by Belarus’ experiences during the Soviet era.
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The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is the ultimate law of Belarus. Adopted in 1994, three years after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union. The structure and substance of the Constitution were heavily influenced by constitutions of Western powers and by Belarus’ experiences during the Soviet era. The Constitution has been amended twice since the original adoption, in 1996 and in 2004. The first attempt to codify the laws of the medieval state on the territory of what is now Belarus took the form of Statutes of Lithuania, with the First Statute in power in 1529. The document, written in Old Belarusian language, fulfilled the role of the supreme law of the land. The 1791 document remained in force for less than 19 months; after a brief war with Russia, it was annulled by the Grodno Sejm on 23 November 1793. By 1795, the Commonwealth was partitioned between Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria, with most of the lands of the Grand Duchy under the Russian rule. In 1919, after the occupation of the country by the Russian Bolsheviks, Belarus became a Soviet Republic, and a new constitution was adopted. In 1927, the country adopted its first Soviet-era constitution in 1927, complementing the recently adopted Soviet Constitution. After a re-adoption in 1937, the Byelorussian SSR adopted its last Soviet- era constitution in 1978, mainly to reflect changes made in the 1977 Soviet Constitution, where it was published in order to order it to be published.
The third draft was submitted to the Supreme Council and signed on March 15, 1994 by the Speaker of the Head of State, Myechys Hrybette Zvezda. Every year since 1994, every law passed during the thirteenth session of the Supreme Soviet has been void with a few exceptions. The second law passed in March 1994 has been titled the Enactment Law, rendering the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Constitution of Belarus void. The fourth and final draft was published 15 days later, and officially published fifteen days later by Head of the gazette, Mychys Zvezbette Hrycette Zuzda. The last draft was sent to the first of three drafts in November 1991, and the first draft was approved in December 1991 for the Belarusians to make comments and suggestions. It was then published in January 1994, and signed by the speaker of the head of state, Myerys Zechys Zezda, in order for it to become the law for the whole of Belarus to be in force within two years in two years. The constitution provides for a separation of powers among legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, established popular sovereignty and extended political rights to the bourgeoisie. The peasantry saw their rights increased but it fell short of abolishing serfdom, which was reconfirmed. The new constitution abolished the liberum veto and banned the szlachta’s confederations, which had crippled decision making the state.
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